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Unabhängige staatliche Institutionen: Funktionalität und demokratische Legitimation

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  • Kruse, Jörn

    (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg)

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Independent authorities have a number of advantages compared to politically dependent institutions, namely because of their superior specific qualification and performace, long-run incentive structure, influence of interest groups being less effective, and other reasons. Concerns are often related to the assertion of unsufficient democratic legitimation. But this argument does not hold, if the independent authority is evaluated and put under the control of another expert independent authority with democratic legitimation. A large number of governmental institutions should be redesigned to become independent authorities.

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  • Kruse, Jörn, 2012. "Unabhängige staatliche Institutionen: Funktionalität und demokratische Legitimation," Working Paper 130/2012, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:vhsuwp:2012_130
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    Keywords

    Unabhängige Institutionen; demokratische Legitimation;

    JEL classification:

    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • H83 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Public Administration

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